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Students aim to aid kids with Teach for America

By Jenn Buck | February 12, 2004

After experiencing a top-notch education in state-of-the-art facilities, some Dartmouth students are choosing to take their education to America's most disadvantaged primary schools. For Justin May '00, reading "Savage Inequalities" during his senior fall while in professor Andrew Garrod's Education 20 class was an eye-opening experience. "He is on fire," said May.

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IFC, admin. talks soothe tensions

By Dax Tejera | February 12, 2004

Greek leaders and College administrators are predicting tensions between them will ease in coming weeks as negotationsfix misperceptions and communication failures on both sides. Dean of the College James Larimore is overseeing talks between the Greek Leadership Council, Interfraternity Council and College administrators to answer questions, listen to concerns and separate fact from fiction on future College policy. Dartmouth Greek community leaders have expressed increased concern since the start of Winter term that the College may be tightening the reigns of the Student Life Initiative and efforts to curtail Greek life at Dartmouth.

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College seeks minority athletes

By Mark Herman | February 12, 2004

A recent internal study conducted as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's re-certification process revealed that athletic teams were less than one-third as diverse as the larger student body.

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Two profs win NEH research fellowships

By Licyau Wong | February 12, 2004

Two Dartmouth professors were among 180 scholars who will receive research stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which awarded its annual prestigious fellowships on Tuesday. Philosophy professor Julia Driver and Anthropology professor John Watanabe were the only recipients in New Hampshire. The NEH is an independent federal grant provider that funds programs supporting the Humanities in education, exhibitions, libraries and other public arenas. It received 1,289 applications this year and awarded 180 fellowships and $3.3 million in funds. Each professor will receive a stipend of $40,000 for a 9-12 month fellowship and will spend the year doing research rather than teaching, in accordance with the rules governing NEH fellowships. Driver and Watanabe are both using their fellowships to finish authoring books. Driver's book addresses the "greatest happiness" principle, while Watanabe's focuses on administering race, class, community and nation in 19th Century Guatemala. Both said they were pleased to have received the awards. "It's a real honor to get it," Driver said. Watanabe said he views the grant as an opportunity to round out his abilities as a professor. "This reaffirms my faith in the fact that to be a good teacher you have to do your research too," Watanabe said.

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Job market picks up for '04s

By AnnMary Mathew | February 12, 2004

For Dartmouth seniors looking for jobs, prospects are slightly better this year compared to last year, according to Assistant Director of Career Services Monica Wilson. This is in line with reports indicating that the job market is slowly starting to pick up after several years of nail-biting for many, even those with college degrees.

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Budget committee tackles College cuts

By Lizzie Wise | February 11, 2004

College Provost Barry Scherr set up the Student Budget Advisory Committee last year so that a group of students could meet to discuss the College's budget priorities with administrators on a bi-weekly basis in an informal, cooperative setting. Scherr, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Adam Keller, Dean of the College James Larimore and roughly a dozen students now sit in on such meetings. "Our key goals are to get student input in what we are thinking about the budget, and to have a group of students get to understand what the budgetary process looks like at this institution," Scherr said. "Last year, we were really wrestling with hard decisions," Scherr said.

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Feminist assails abortion rights

By Megan Spillane | February 11, 2004

Sally A. Winn, vice president of Feminists for Life of America, urged students, faculty and community members to pursue an anti-abortion agenda Tuesday evening in a speech titled "Refuse to Chose: Reclaiming Feminism." Winn challenged her audience to tackle what she called the root causes of abortion -- the lack of financial and emotional support shown to expectant mothers. "If we come together we can systematically eliminate the root causes that lead to abortion," Winn said. According to Winn, 1.3 million surgical abortions are performed in the United States every year and one in five is performed on a college student. Winn, who delivered her now-10-year-old daughter while she was a student at Indiana University, attributed that statistic to the lack of resources for pregnant women on college campuses. Winn called for better campus housing options, affordable day-care programs and maternity insurance coverage on college plans. "No one wants to see a woman drop out of school," Winn said.

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Students talk sex at annual fest

By Jenn Buck | February 11, 2004

Spring fever was in the air Tuesday night, as students from all over campus converged on Collis Commonground for the second annual Sex Festival. The Center for Women and Gender sponsored the educational event, where visitors could pick up free samples of condoms and lubricants, have their questions answered anonymously in the "confessional" and snack on anatomically-modeled cookies. Tables were set up around the room, each one themed to address a different aspect of sex education.

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Details of debate debacle rest unclear

By Matthew Kelly | February 11, 2004

The full details of how the student-organized presidential forum "Healing America" was cancelled remain unclear even now, three weeks after the event was to take place. The roundtable's chief organizers, Kabir Sehgal '05 and Brent Reidy '05 of BuzzFlood and Janos Marton '04 and Noah Riner '06 of Student Assembly, have said in print that a Dartmouth administrator called the Kerry campaign two days before the event, resulting in the Kerry campaign's withdrawal. The Kerry campaign's scheduling office did, in fact, receive a letter from Rockefeller Center Director Linda Fowler notifying them of the first cancellation of "Healing America" in December, an investigation by The Dartmouth has found.

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'06 accident highlights safety on Skiway slopes

By Steven Orbuch | February 10, 2004

When Christina Porter '06 ended up in the intensive care unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center following a ski accident at the Dartmouth Skiway, her parents called for improved safety at the College-run facility. Skiway personnel defended the area's safety infrastructure, despite recent questions raised by Porter's accident. The ski center always has at least four patrollers on duty and the number of active patrollers climbs to accommodate large turnouts, according to Skiway Director Douglas Holler. "We typically have more than enough patrollers on site," Holler said. Students who visit the Skiway regularly agreed. "There are always people watching out for you," said Stephanie Kronenberg '07. The Skiway -- which can accommodate up to 1,600 skiers -- typically reports over 100 accidents per year.

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Report to NCAA finds compliance

By Mark Herman | February 10, 2004

The Dartmouth athletics department has instituted new protocol to make sure that teams operating outside the department are in compliance with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's regulations, according to a recently-issued report compiled as part of the NCAA re-certification process. The increased oversight comes in the wake of questions about the Dartmouth ski team's NCAA compliance.

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Cancer kills Aires leader Hicks '49

By Mark Henle | February 10, 2004

Orton Hicks Jr. '49 succumbed to prostate cancer on Friday, Feb. 6. A founding member of the Aires, he continued to attend rehearsals and shows several times a year and was a beloved alumnus of the group, according to Aires members. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1949, Hicks settled in the Upper Valley and remained active at the College, notably the John Sloane Dickey Center for International Understanding. Hicks invited all the Aires to an annual "lilacs" party at his home in Woodstock, Vt.

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Many factors affect death sentencing

By Liz Yepsen | February 9, 2004

Race, economic status and geography are all important and discriminating factors in determining which criminals receive the death penalty in the United States, Diann Rust Tierny said on Friday in her speech "Justice Denied: The Implementation of the Death Penalty in the U.S." Tierny, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project, is working toward a nationwide abolition of the death penalty.

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The Fort truck stop says 'no' to smoking

By Luke Schoen | February 9, 2004

Local families and students are discovering an unlikely new dining option at the local truck stop. The Fort, formerly known as Fort Lou's, has long been a favorite late-night pit stop for truckers and midterm-weary Dartmouth students in search of nourishment.

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Window restoration, rights card mark SA's Winter term

By Lizzie Wise | February 9, 2004

Editors' note: Halfway through Winter term, The Dartmouth takes a midterm report of Student Assembly and its recent developments. In what may prove to result in an important artistic addition to the College, the Student Assemblylast month passed a resolution to unveil boarded-up stained-glass windows containing Christian religious imagery in Rollins Chapel. The Assembly leadership handled what could have been a controversial proposal with awareness and diplomacy toward all religious groups who would be affected by the unveiling. Members of the Assembly's Committee on Student Organizations met with Hillel executives to assure that this unveiling would not affect Jewish High Holy Day services annually held in the Chapel.

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Campus addresses Mass. court ruling

By Dax Tejera | February 6, 2004

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that full and equal marriage rights for gay couples would be constitutional, virtually assuring that the nation's first same-sex marriages could be granted as early as May. The court's ruling comes on the heals of a Massachusetts constitutional convention scheduled for Wednesday, where the state legislature will consider an amendment that would effectively ban gay marriage by defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman. In November, the Massachusetts court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, and ordered the legislature to change state laws to guarantee that right within six months.

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